Adrian Cheok becomes finalist in the Advance Global Australian Awards 2015

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Adrian Cheok is shortlisted as one of the finalists in this year’s Advance Global Australian Awards for his achievements in technology innovation.

Advance Global Australian Awards are prestigious awards that celebrate Australians around the world, who exhibit remarkable talent, exceptional vision and ambition. They are the only awards to recognise the important contributions of the more than one million Australians living abroad, and for those who have returned home. A distinguished group of Australian provocateurs and pioneers, who themselves have made a significant impact on the global stage will select the winners.

The Advance Global Australian Awards will be held at the iconic Sydney Opera House on 14 September.

The complete list of shortlisted finalists can be found on http://www.globalaustralianawards.com/shortlisted-nominees.

Adrian Cheok Featured in Documentary Series DOCU – Documenting the Curious at FutureFest 2015 London

DOCU is a documentary film format produced by Nefula to explore Curious Rituals, New Normals and Possible Futures through the faces and the opinions of artists, researchers, designers, scientists, thinkers and activists from all over the World.

In the first episode of DOCU #00 you will enjoy some extracts from the interviews given by our guests about privacy, p2p ecosystem, Blockchain and more.

Adrian Cheok appears in this episode of DOCU as one of the featured guests. Other guests include:

Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information (Oxford Internet Institute), Ian Brown, Principal Investigator, the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, (Oxford Martin School), Primavera De Filippi, Researcher Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law, Brett Scott, Author & Financial hacker, Adam Harper, Author, Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation.

Interview in History Repeating Itself Podcast: Sex Machines in Our History

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Listen to Adrian Cheok talk about transmitting touch, taste and smell over the Internet in the latest episode of History Repeating Itself.

Episode 21 – Sex Machines in Our History

Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second installment of our series on synthetic relationships.

Link: http://www.historyrepeatingitself.com/